Alejandra Seeber (Buenos Aires, 1969), has been described as having a dialogic approach to painting, where intentionality and random procedures, failings and acceptance operate together without hierarchy. Seeber conceptualizes painting, not from historical references or social conventions but from a visual culture crossed by alternative rock, theatrical stage designs, musical shows, the city’s underground, the digital softwares that started being used in graphic design and the technological novelty in publicity characteristic of the end of the last century. Laying her eyes in domestic interiors, architecture and decorations, Seeber finds an image of the world that she rapidly blows up in stains and squirts that scatter through the canvas making it impossible to see the difference between in and out, between figures and abstraction. In this battle for domesticating symbols and updating meaning, Seeber ends up adding new forms and contexts to images resulting in multiple-layered works that invite us to renegotiate the boundaries between totality and fragment.
Some of her most recent projects are A oJO (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2021), Fuera de serie (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2021), Getaways (Hausler Contemporary, Lustenau, Austria, 218); Autoamerican (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2015); Cuadro por cuadro (Miau Miau, Buenos Aires, 2014); Yes-yes (Hausler Contemporary, Munich, 2011) Tutti Frutti (Hausler Contemporari, Zurich, 2011); Dialogville (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2010); Muro O’reverie (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2009), Pinturalia, Galeria (Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, 2008); The Pregnant painter (Virgil de Voldere Gallery, Nueva York, 2007); Duos (Sperone Westwater, Nueva York (2003); Living Rum (Dabbah Torrejón Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, 2002); This Room: Painting as a Second Language (Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, 2001); and Serendipia (Galerie de L’Alliance Française, Buenos Aires, 1999), among others. She lives and works in New York.
BARRO presents Danza Perfumi, Alejandra Seeber’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In line with these recent exhibitions and the work that the painter has been carrying out for years in the international scene, Seeber’s proposal deepens a way of understanding painting as an environmental device.
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14.03.2025 Canvas, winner of the 2023 Premio Azcuy, inaugurated her Suave Star project, created for the Donna Fiore building with technical and curatorial advice from the Azcuy studio and the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. "My proposal was to work with concrete as a cross-cutting axis in the project. To take this element and make it work in the architecture, art, and spatial design," in the artist's words.
14.03.2025 Fabril la mirada is Lucrecia Lionti's first solo show in a museum, curated by Carla Barbero and featuring an installation created especially for the exhibition. Fabril la mirada does not seek to reaffirm the telluric values of craft, but instead to confront its visual and ethical aspects.
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